Anne Lamott Quotes

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• 'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
• I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
• You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see…
• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
• Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures…
• You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come…
• You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
• In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
• Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
• To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we…
• ...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a…
• They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really…
• The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is…
• You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.…
• Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls…
• Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and…
• It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things…
• We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
• There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence…
• Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

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